Ignatz lojda



(No Model.)

I. LOJDA.

GLOAK. i No. 259,324. Patented June 13, 1882..

Owl 1 ZfZ Q NITED STATES IGNATZ LOJDA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOAK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,324, dated June 13, 1882. Application filed January 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNATZ LOJDA, a citizen of Austria, residing at New York city, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ladies (Jloaks, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my improvement consists in the combination of a vest or bodice with a loose cloak to protect the body or chest of the person, and arranged in such a manner as to leave free space for the free use of the arms.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a plain cloak or duster containing my improvement. Fig. II shows a cloak with a large cape attached. The other figures are details referred to in the specification.

Similar letters represent similar parts in all the figures.

A represents the cloak, made in the usual manner and of any desired shape or form.

B is the bodice or vest, cut in the shape as represented in Fig. III. This vest is madein two parts and closed by buttons, hooks, or lacing at the front over the chest or bodyto protect the same against wind and weather. This vest part is attached to the body of the cloak at a and I), while the remaining part is left free, enabling thereby, at the unattached part 0, (see Fig. 111,) the free use of the arm between this vest part and the body of the cloak. If desired, an invisible sleeve may be attached to the edge of the vest, arranged similar as described in my Patent No. 249,537, dated November 15, 1881.

Instead of fastening the vest B at b to the body A of the cloak by a permanent seam, an

elastic band may be introduced or suitable strings may be attached to tighten the vest around the body.

The arrangement and combination of the vest or bodice B with a cloak A will protect the chest against the wind and weather. If desired, the vest may be extended downward, as shown at B in Figs. II and III in dotted lines, and thus form a shirt, producing thereby a complete dress and cloak in one and the saine garment.

WVhenever it is desired to make the cloak with a cape, G, as shown in Fig. II, this cape may form the back of the upper part of the cloak, and the same is shaped as shown in Fig. V, while the cape G, forming the upper and back part of the cloak A, is cut out, as shown in Fig.IV, the vest B, cloak A, and capeGbeing in that case attached together at a and b, as above described; but the front and lower part of the cape must in that case be of sufficient length and size to cover fully the cut-out part or edge of the cloak A at n and m, said cape G hanging loose over the cloak A, giving thereby, either between the vest B and cloak A, or between the cloak A and the cape G, perfectly free play for the motion of the arms.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with a cloak, A, a vest or bodice, B, formed of two separate and distinct parts, each attached to the inside of the cloak at two points only, one at a, near the collar in front, and the other at 1), near the waist, toward the back, and unattached between those two points to allow free room for the passage of the arms back and outside of thevest parts, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

IGNATZ LOJ DA.

Witnesses HENRY E. ROEDER,

J. B. NoNEs. 

